Fine twisted kidnap thriller

Oddly affecting portrait of an inadequate genius

Law and Paltrow in CGI-heavy sci-fi adventure

Redundant remake of Michael Caine classic

DIRECTED BY Chanwook Park STARRING Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo, Hye-jung Gang Opens October 15, Cert 18, 119 mins the second instalment in director Chanwook Park's so-called "Revenge Trilogy" (begun with 2002's Sympathy For Mr Vengeance) would put even Tarantino to shame.

Swedish psych-rockers return

Soulless home-grown horror tries too hard

Mel Brooks'gloriously tasteless 1965 comedy, with Zero Mostel's shabby producer and Gene Wilder's timid accountant hatching a plan to make a fortune from a sure-fire Broadway flop, Springtime For Hitler. Brooks' play-within-a-film structure is fiendishly clever, while Kenneth Mars' bug-eyed, paranoid Nazi playwright and Dick Shawn's way-out hippie Hitler steal the show. Superb.

George Lucas' debut is a dystopian 1984-style fantasy of a loveless society, starring Robert Duvall. The studio hated it, hacking five minutes out of it (here restored) for its initial 1970 release, but even though bleak and predictable, it's visually breath-taking. Speculate on where Lucas might have gone from here if only he hadn't been waylaid by Wookies.

The devil's prequel fails to ignite